Sarah Palin: We’re ‘screwed’

Ex-Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin says America is being “screwed”, in denouncing a presidential appointment that is supported by her 2008 running mate Sen. John McCain.

Palin delivered her declaration in a Facebook post: She no longer has Fox News as a platform. She was denouncing the nomination of human rights activist Samantha Power as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice being tapped as new national security adviser at the White House.

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“I shouldn’t have prefaced this post with a warning to hang on because we’re in for a helluva’ ride,” Palin wrote. “Sorry, that was crass and inaccurate. I should have just said about Obama’s judgment and unchecked power: America, we are so screwed.”

Palin is using Power’s husband, Cass Sunstein, as a fulcrum in denouncing the U.N. nomination. Sunstein is a former University of Chicago and Harvard law professor, who has become an overseer of new regulations at the White House. Curiously, he has been a target of environmental groups because he held up an ozone regulation proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Palin wrote about “the very very strange Obama pick for an early ‘czar’ position who wowed us with his numerous bizarre claims . . . But Mrs. Cass Sunstein’s character judgment in choosing her life partner is the least of America’s worries.”

Power is a former journalist who gained fame — and later won a Pulitzer Prize — for her on-the-scene reporting from Sarajevo during the Yugoslav civil war, and the 1994 massacre that killed an estimated 1 million people in the east African country of Rwanda. She has worked as an Obama foreign policy adviser since 2008.

McCain is more impressed at Power’s record. “I believe she is well qualified for this important position and hope the Senate will move forward on her nomination as soon as possible,” he told NBC News.